1494 The Battle Of Acentejo: A Gaunches Victory At Tenerife Over The Castilians
A battle at the end of May 1494, on the north slope of the island of Tenerife, between the Castilian troops of the belligerent Catholic Monarchs of Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile and a thousand Read More
The Face Of A Canary Island Guanche Woman, Reconstructing Ancestors
The narratives of history relate the fates and dates of nameless, faceless people who came before us, often reduced only to numbers, but when Read More
Famous Gaunches Mummies Drenched In Dragons’ Blood Like A Stradivarius Violin
From 1494 to 1496, the island of Tenerife was beset by a military invasion. The conquerors and soldiers of the Castilian kingdom of Castile and Aragon deployed numerous troops to subdue the hardened inhabitants of the island: the Read More
Ancient Guanche Solar Worship And Fertility Rites In The Canary Islands
The Canarian laurel forest is a prehistoric forest about 20 million years old, present in many enclaves on the north coast of Tenerife. This wonderful and ancient forest formation treasures great botanical and a...
The Fan Pyramid of Tenerife, A Guanche Stone Solstice Marker
A peculiar pyramid with a ‘fan structure’ stands as an ancient stone solstice marker in Icod de los Vinos, a municipality on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands (Spain). The precolonial inhabitants of Tenerife came to be known as th...
